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Informe sobre la enfermedad del cafeto.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
"I shout loud enough, don't I?" answered Tip, angrily.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
non tam laboriosi ut Belgae, sed ut Hispani otiatores vitam ut plurimum otiosam agentes: artes manuariae quae plurimum habent in se laboris et difficultatis, majoremque requirunt industriam, a peregrinis et exteris exercentur; habitant in piscosissimo mari, interea tantum non piscantur quantum insulae suffecerit sed a vicinis emere coguntur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
There must be mines in the environs of this nation of the Ytzaes, because the most of the Indians (in some large ear drops which they wear) have roses of silver hanging down, and others of silver and gold, and as the Spaniards do not come to this nation, nor the Indians of this Province of Yucathan, nor of the other provinces, because they are afraid of them, I do not know where they could get this gold and silver unless they took it from some mine.
— from History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Philip Ainsworth Means
It is common for change to produce like results elsewhere, as well as in school life, especially during the early years of womanhood.
— from The Education of American Girls by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
In truth, I suspect little else do we learn From this great book of life, which so shrewdly we turn, Saving how to apply, with a good or bad grace, What we learn'd in the hornbook of childhood.
— from Lucile by Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of
Thus physics will give greater and increasing satisfaction to the mind by furnishing new interpretations of phenomena; but it will accomplish, for the whole of society, more valuable work still, by rendering, by the improvements it suggests, life every day more easy and more agreeable, and by providing mankind with weapons against the hostile forces of Nature.
— from The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré
I STOLBERG Lied eines deutschen Knaben.—
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In doing this, I shall liberally embody documents, orders, instructions, and reports which I hope will not prove tiresome, since they 89 supply the facts I desire to present, at first hand and more impressively than they could be presented by any words of mine.
— from Presidential Problems by Grover Cleveland
I shall Lady, Even die, I hope.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10 by John Fletcher
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